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. We will fix you up.

. [Aside] Uy! She is going to put me in a stew. I knew she must be the cook. [Aloud] Have you finished?

. Yes, man, yes. Do you feel hungry?

. A little. I didn't dine on a roast calf.

. Sit down then and eat. I am not a niggard. You can fill yourself at your pleasure. Cram, man, cram!… But don't give yourself a pain.

Tony. [Aside] Uy! What good care he takes of me!

. Drink, man, drink. Laugh! Laugh! I am not a surly fellow, I am not one of the sort to eat people up, as before you seemed to think.

. No, no…

. When I am hungry, I am in bad humor; but when I have had my dinner, I am the jolliest chap in the world. Drink, man, drink.

. [Aside] Yes. He wants to get me drunk, so as to throw me in the pot without my knowing it. [Aloud] No, no, thank you. [Aside] Uy! This wine! It goes straight to the head. They are going to cook me without my knowing it! [Aloud] Though perhaps I am not the one to ask, what do you intend to do with me? Stuff me with potatoes?

. Ha? Potatoes? The feed of the poor! We are going to stuff you with truffles.

. [Aside] Like a turkey. [Aloud] Aren't you afraid you will have indigestion?

. I have never had indigestion.

. [Aside] If I can give it to him, then…

. [Singing]